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Thailand's Rice Politics with Jacob Ricks

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Tie Rice Politics - The Impact of Patty Pledging

This rice pledging scheme was, as you've already said, one of the big reasons that justify the overthrow o the yinga government by the militaryin two thousand and 14. The ingla government ended up buying most of the tie rice on the market. And theyve ended up buying quite poor quality rice at very high prices, and then they couldn't sell it on the international market. There was a bit of a disaster in that sense. I would say that toxan chinlat's first term in office, which was from two thousand one to two thousand five, was the period that changed tie rice politics forever.

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